Harry Potter
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Harry Potter makes first appearance for seven years as he turns 34
8 Jul 2014:JK Rowling, writing as gossip columnist 'Rita Skeeter' for the Pottermore site, exposes his first grey hairs and Ron Weasley's now-thinning thatch
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Editors' picks
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Review: John Mullan on Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows.- Blog: the first readers of Harry's last adventure
- John Mullan on Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince
- Mark Lawson on Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
- Nicholas Lezard on Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
- Claire Armitstead on Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
- Digested read: Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
- News: Debut author and single mother sells children's book for £100,000
- News: Harry Potter's real life model was no sluggard on tricks
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13 Jul 2014: Victoria Coren Mitchell: A grown-up Harry Potter features in a new JK Rowling story. What about other literary children?
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7 Jun 2014: Ian Jack: Mallaig's days as a bustling herring port are long gone, but the town is still full of people today. Few would have guessed that its commercial salvation would be owed to a modern fairytale
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8 Feb 2014:
When JK Rowling admitted regretting pairing Ron and Hermione, Harry Potter fans were furious. Stephanie Merritt and Alex Clark debate whether she should have spoken out
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2 Feb 2014: Poll
In an interview in the next issue of Wonderland magazine, JK Rowling says that she wrote the Hermione Granger/Ron Weasley relationship 'as a form of wish fulfilment', and that really Hermione should have married Harry Potter. Do you agree?
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31 Jul 2013: Poll
JK Rowling's Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone hit US bookshelves 15 years ago and has had a huge cultural influence
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21 Oct 2014:
It’s common for Chinese people to take a western name for business purposes. Beijing’s CCTV has discussed the pitfalls to avoid choosing an inappropriate option
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21 Oct 2014: Emma Watson is a strong female character in fiction as Hermione and in the real world – author Cate Sampson calls for more portrayals in children’s and teen books that reflect how women really are
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14 Oct 2014:
There are 151 teams in the USA alone playing an earthbound version of the game in Harry Potter. A new film explores the phenomenon from the inside
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13 Oct 2014:
February 2015 will see publishers Bloomsbury launch the world's first Harry Potter book night – so wands and broomsticks at the ready!
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11 Oct 2014: Inspired by a question from his son about Harry Potter, comedian David Baddiel has written a children’s book about a boy who can choose his own parents
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9 Oct 2014:
The comedian, TV presenter and author of The Parent Agency, his first book for children, remembers how something his son said at the Harry Potter studios began to take on a life of its own…
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7 Oct 2014: Author teases fans of young wizard with series of tweets, saying they are ‘something to ponder while I’m away’
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30 Sep 2014: Menahem Asher Silva Vargas’s 3,097-piece haul of Rowling-themed goods wins him place in Guinness book
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27 Sep 2014:
University of Rochester researchers discover way to hide objects from sight using inexpensive and readily available lenses
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Quiz,
26 Sep 2014:
To celebrate David Walliams' new book Awful Auntie take our aunt-themed quiz. Plus win a signed copy of the book!
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24 Sep 2014: You tell us: Parents and schools challenge books like Captain Underpants and Harry Potter to protect kids – but from what? Share your tales of wild reading rebellion
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24 Sep 2014:
sylanians: 'Whose side does Harry turn to when he finds out the truth, and finds out who Sirius really is?'
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19 Sep 2014: Damien Walter: Young adult fiction’s sci-fi metaphors are the best guide we have to the bleak and broken realities of adult life
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29 Aug 2014: GrrlScientist: What good is a weekend without a good book to read? Take a look at these books -- hot off the presses -- that you may enjoy!
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25 Aug 2014:
Newsflash: the Harry Potter author introduced the teenage education activist at her sold-out talk at the Edinburgh festival
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